John Kane-Berman
John Kane-Berman, a graduate of Wits and Oxford (where he was a Rhodes Scholar), is a former CEO of the IRR. Prior to that he spent ten years in journalism, where he was senior assistant editor of the Financial Mail and South African correspondent for numerous foreign papers. He is the author of several books on South African politics, and has also published his memoirs.
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Renewables are more costly and risky the deeper you dig
It’s now almost an article of faith among energy writers in the bulk of the media that “renewables” are the best form of energy from
The Climate Change Bill is a monstrous absurdity
Even by the standards of the African National Congress (ANC), the 2022 Climate Change Bill is an absurdity. For starters it subverts the efforts of
Demographic delusions at the University of Cape Town
In today’s climate, it takes courage for an academic to speak out publicly against his university’s racial preferencing policies. That, however, is what David Benatar
Fear and loathing at the University of Cape Town
To read this book is to descend into an Orwellian world of topsy-turvy logic, thoughtcrime, doublethink, betrayal, cruelty, lies, and fear. But George Orwell described
The anti-semitic origins of diversity and racial “representation”
Writing recently on Politicsweb, James Myburgh described how a German think-tank put out a report in 1936 highlighting the “dangerous” over-representation of Jews in high
Greens fume as Boris Johnson inches towards more oil and gas
Earlier this month Boris Johnson’s government published a new “British energy security strategy” in terms of which “a licensing round for new North Sea oil
The West makes a mockery of “safety”
Safe spaces. In Ukraine they include underground metro stations and other places where thousands upon thousands of people are sheltering from the missiles, shells, and
The Nats valued education, but the ANC fears it
Writing last week on PoliticsWeb, the historian Hermann Giliomee disputed claims that there were major similarities between the cadre deployment policies of the present South
How The New York Times covered up famine in Ukraine
Six weeks ago, as Russia prepared to invade Ukraine, this column described how Stalin killed 3.9 million Ukrainians by starvation in the early 1930s. He
Russia and the West: miscalculations all round
Numerous commentators have branded Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine a “miscalculation”. But Western leaders have themselves made major miscalculations, nobody more so than the former